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Brea, California · one day

Friday 3 July 2026

20 drone flights from Brea Police Department's published record.

20

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:55 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:42 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 20 times on Friday 3 July 2026, the first at 11:55 am and the last at 11:42 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 20. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service75%
  2. Training and testing20%
  3. Other5%

Flights, in order

20 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
11:55 amCall for service14 minf1a3c520
1:25 pmCall for service13 min23e4edac
2:56 pmCall for service7 mind59964ff
3:03 pmCall for service10 mind469e07f
3:49 pmTraining and testing0 s92ddaba8
3:51 pmTraining and testing0 s8109cc5c
3:53 pmCall for service21 min56c6529f
4:18 pmTraining and testing1 min 54 s12d3e36e
4:22 pmCall for service6 min83f91dc9
4:37 pmCall for service19 mineae5d235
4:58 pmCall for service21 mind15be7f2
5:19 pmCall for service22 minbca22f04
7:36 pmCall for service16 minc4e71040
7:53 pmCall for service14 min2478d56e
9:32 pmCall for service10 min5ad5e986
9:43 pmCall for service15 min681a1269
10:00 pmTraining and testing7 min7bccff8b
10:09 pmOther14 min46df0669
10:40 pmCall for service10 mincaf945b4
11:42 pmCall for service8 minc53fa9dd

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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